User talk:Lessersins

June 2008
Welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to contribute constructively to the encyclopedia, your addition of one or more external links to the page Barbara Walters has been reverted. Your edit here was reverted by an automated bot that attempts to remove unwanted links and spam from Wikipedia. The external link you added or changed is on my list of links to remove and probably shouldn't be included in Wikipedia. The external links I reverted were matching the following regex rule(s): rule: '\bwordpress\.com' (link(s): http://johnwwsmith.wordpress.com/2008/05/31/did-barbara-walters-forget-that-she-was-married/ http://johnwwsmith.wordpress.com/). If the external link you inserted or changed was to a blog, forum, free web hosting service, or similar site, then please check the information on the external site thorougly. Note that such sites should probably not be linked to if they contain information that is in violation of the creators copyright (see Linking to copyrighted works), or they are not written by a recognised, reliable source. Linking to sites that you are involved with is also strongly discouraged (see conflict of interest).

If you were trying to insert an external link that does comply with our policies and guidelines, then please accept my creator's apologies and feel free to undo the bot's revert. Please read Wikipedia's external links guideline for more information, and consult my list of frequently-reverted sites. For more information about me, see my FAQ page. Thanks! XLinkBot (talk) 22:34, 11 June 2008 (UTC)

Barbara Walters
As noted above, blogs are generally considered to be unreliable sources, and should not be used as references in most cases. Your addition also included some of what appeared to be personal opinion, suggesting "suppression;" please try to avoid expressing personal views in articles. Thanks. I'll leave you a welcome message below, giving you some links to help you learn to edit and use Wikipedia. Tony Fox (arf!) 22:50, 11 June 2008 (UTC)

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Welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to contribute constructively to the encyclopedia, your addition of one or more external links to the page Barbara Walters has been reverted. Your edit here was reverted by an automated bot that attempts to remove unwanted links and spam from Wikipedia. The external link you added or changed is on my list of links to remove and probably shouldn't be included in Wikipedia. The external links I reverted were matching the following regex rule(s): rule: '\bwordpress\.com' (link(s): http://johnwwsmith.wordpress.com/2008/05/31/did-barbara-walters-forget-that-she-was-married/). If the external link you inserted or changed was to a blog, forum, free web hosting service, or similar site, then please check the information on the external site thorougly. Note that such sites should probably not be linked to if they contain information that is in violation of the creators copyright (see Linking to copyrighted works), or they are not written by a recognised, reliable source. Linking to sites that you are involved with is also strongly discouraged (see conflict of interest).

If you were trying to insert an external link that does comply with our policies and guidelines, then please accept my creator's apologies and feel free to undo the bot's revert. Please read Wikipedia's external links guideline for more information, and consult my list of frequently-reverted sites. For more information about me, see my FAQ page. Thanks! XLinkBot (talk) 22:06, 12 June 2008 (UTC)


 * Yeah. Again... blogs are not usable as references. Please don't attempt to add that link to the Barbara Walters article again. Tony Fox (arf!) 22:29, 12 June 2008 (UTC)

I understand that blogs probably are not usable, but this does not appear to be a fixed rule, but a filter to deal with what is probably an unreliable link. Is there somewhere I can discuss this issue, for I believe a) the source is credible, not because it is a blog but because it has about a dozen references that on their own would be included here, or overwhelmingly so, and b) to repeat all these links with a succint explanation in Wikipedia seems difficult?Lessersins (talk) 22:39, 12 June 2008 (UTC)


 * Actually, if you read the guideline, you'll find that personal blogs are considered unreliable in the majority of cases. If you want to discuss its usefulness, drop a note at this noticeboard and see what the editors there think. Tony Fox (arf!) 04:13, 13 June 2008 (UTC)